Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

Sep 2023 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by Leslie Jones and Chris Rock

About this audiobook

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with 5+ hours of bonus material not found in the print version and read by Leslie Jones. AudioFile Magazine awarded the recording an ‘Earphones Award’, saying: “No listener can leave this memoir unaffected as Jones laughs and sobs, sharing the highs and lows, joys and sorrows of her full life.”

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you.

Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-five and she’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I’m talking about my childhood growing up in the South, my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn’t get murdered, what Chris Rock told Lorne Michaels, that time I wanted to shoot Whoopi Goldberg on SNL, and yeah, I’ll tell you all about Ghostbusters and the nudes and Supermarket Sweep and The Daily Show . . . I’m sharing it all in these pages. It’s not easy being a woman in comedy, especially when you’re a tall-*ss Black woman with a trumpet voice. I have to fight so that no one takes me for granted, and no one takes advantage. These are the stories that explain why. (Cue the Law & Order theme.)
 

Ratings and reviews

Let me just say listening to Leslie gives me the balls to start standing up for myself more. I'm not going to say the f word like she says it but I respect her for saying it. (It's alottttttttttttt of FBombs😄) This book brought me to tears and also brought me many many laughs when needed. You can't stop listening to her because you need to finish the chapter cut to 3 hours later, so worth it for each chapter 😊. This has given me greater respect for Leslie and her journey and she will always be one in my top 5 female superheroes. Leslie, please give yourself a round of applause for this cuz your words have truly spoken to me. I need to take more charge of my journey and make amends when I know it will be the hardest thing to do but I need to do it. Life is short.

BEST AUDIOBOOK EVER! I heard her talking about it during a podcast and how she would just riff off of what had been written. It was amazing! It felt like a best friend telling me stories about her life for hours, a very hilarious best friend. I couldn't get enough.

HANDS DOWN THE BEST AUDIOBOOK I'VE EVER HEARD!!!! BAAABY! You talk about someone being real, vulnerable and unedited! I have NO CLUE what the hard copy of the book says but let me tell you! THIS audiobook was worth EVERY PEN-TY!!!

About the author

Leslie Jones is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee as well as a Writer’s Guild Award and NAACP Award nominee for her work on Saturday Night Live. She has also been honored as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. Jones recently wrapped production on season two of the HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death. The week of January 17th, 2023, Jones kicked off a new era of The Daily Show as the program's first guest host. In 2021, she starred opposite Eddie Murphy in Coming 2 America for which she won an MTV Movie Award and was nominated for a People’s Choice Award. Jones will next produce an untitled Christmas comedy for Lionsgate which she is currently developing as a potential future starring role. Additionally, Jones co-hosts the podcast THE FCKRY with comedian Lenny Marcus. Each week, Jones and Marcus interview guests and answer listener questions, while exposing “the fckry” of any given topic.